Transport
ZIP codes were created to make mail transport manageable
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During WWII, so many experienced postal workers were drafted that the US post office was plunged into utter chaos. The government invented the Zone Improvement Plan (ZIP) code so completely untrained teenagers and raw recruits could blindly sort mountains of mail based on simple numbers instead of obscure geographic knowledge.
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